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Coaching Sanctuary is your private haven for personal growth, but it's also a community of like-minded members. It's a great place to go when you feel you need a little something else - some new inspiration, a sounding board for your thoughts or ideas, a boost in positive thinking, or simply a sense of connection to others who are also committed to personal growth. Like any warm community, when you post to the Community Board you can start building your own trusted network to tap into for support.

Also check out our Make the most out of the Community Board section at the end of this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the Coaching Sanctuary provide any networking tools?

While it is not a social networking site, the Coaching Sanctuary does provide programs that allow you to engage friends in your Journey, and even extend a helping hand out to complete strangers. And unlike social networking sites such as LinkedIn or Facebook, ours is a community of friends, one that stresses the quality, not quantity, of relationships. It’s more about the depth of your relationships and how well you and your friends support one another, as well as other women in transformation.

What is the community board and how does it work?

The community board is a private place within Coaching Sanctuary where members can share thoughts about their experience, ask questions, seek the help and advice of others, and inspire other like-minded members toward personal growth.

Members can post questions or inspirations to the community board, reply to other members’ posts, get inspiration from the Journey, and add hyperlinks or images to their own posts and replies. Members can also follow other members or particular posts that they find of interest.

To follow another member, open a post from the member you find interesting and click the pin next to their name. To follow a particular post, open the post you find interesting and click on the pin at the top center of that posting. You can also quickly view your own postings, or receive inspiration from one of the chapters of the Journey, by clicking on the appropriate post.

To keep you in the loop, you will receive an email notification every week that includes all new or updated posts and replies from the members you have chosen to follow.

How does the community board differ from other social networking sites?

Content in the community board is specific to the elements of the personal journey in Coaching Sanctuary. It doesn’t matter if you are reading through a chapter of the Journey and have an insight about "The Power of Gratitude", need some encouragement on a goal you want to achieve, or are looking for a boost in starting a certain activity that you committed to doing, you can make a post to the community board from every element of application.

This means when you are in Chapter "The Power of Gratitude", you can see all the posts from other members who have commented on the chapter. This unique benefit adds a new dimension to your personal transformation and is an invaluable tool for support and encouragement from the like-minded and vibrant women of Coaching Sanctuary.

Another thing that sets the community board apart from other sites is that only members of Coaching Sanctuary can access it so it is an exclusive, secure network. Starting end of June members pay an annual subscription to use the community board in conjunction with the other tools in Coaching Sanctuary. This allows us to weed out those who use networking sites for exposure and personal gain, and to discourage the posting of information that is irrelevant or unnecessary.

Members also have the choice of posting to the community board anonymously or with one’s identity revealed. If a member wants to remain anonymous, they can create a separate profile and upload a different photo from the one on their personal Coaching Sanctuary account.

How to use categories to filter topics fast?

The community is designed to that you'll find topics fast and easy. It's organizes posts by various categories that are related to the elements you will encounter as you advance through Coaching Sanctuary. Use these categories to filter.

The categories include Aspects of Your Life, the Five Creative Powers of the Journey, and Inspirations. To quickly browse through postings from a particular category, just select from the list on the community board and all the posts under that category will be displayed.

In "Aspects of Your Life", you will find categories that represent the most significant areas of your life. These include: Business/Career, Finances/Money, Health/Well-being, Friends/Family, Partner/Romance, Personal Growth, Fun/Recreation and Physical Environment. Coaching Sanctuary also displays these "Aspects of Your Life" on your home screen (coming in July) represented in the form of flower petals, which, together, form the flower of your life.

In the "Five Creative Powers", the categories include Energy, Mind, Feelings, Speech and Actions—the same themes that you will encounter in the Spiral Up Process of the Journey.

Inspirations refer to the Coaching Sanctuary elements that are interwoven throughout the application, such as Getting Started, Staying Motivated, Stories, Exercises, Vision/Goals, Inner Vow, Activities, and Gifts/Rewards.

You choose which categories are the most important to you at any given time.

Who monitors the community board for content?

We want you to feel comfortable sharing your experience with other members, and encourage you to post to the community board as part of your daily practice.

If a member comes across a posting that they feel is inappropriate, they can report it by clicking on the report button at the bottom of the post.

Coaching Sanctuary staff may choose to monitor or not monitor posts.

Repeated posting of inappropriate content could result in a member being asked to leave Coaching Sanctuary and forfeit their account. We reserve the right to delete any posts that we deem derogatory, inappropriate or that do not serve and support our members.

What are the community board guidelines?

First and foremost, respect each other. We all come from different backgrounds and have different life experiences. Being respectful of one another and treating each other with dignity and respect will enrich the culture, liveliness and purpose of the community board.

We encourage you to express yourself, share your experience, and offer your opinion when it feels right. Please do so in a respectful, loving, caring, supportive and positive way.

Each experience resonates differently with different people. There is no right or wrong way to post, nor is there one opinion that is the right one. We strongly believe that every member of Coaching Sanctuary is a resourceful, smart and loving individual who knows what’s best for her.

Coaching Sanctuary is a place for all origins, religions, abilities and sexual orientations. By participating in the community board, you agree to respect this variety and embrace the different views and beliefs of each member.

Please do not upload photos or any other material to our public areas (for example, our community board) unless you possess the right to do so (the copyrights). And while we don't monitor your private postings and uploads, please follow our Guidelines and Terms of Use in all areas of the Coaching Sanctuary.

Can I set a screen name?

We want your experience in the community board to be a positive one. In order for you to feel safe confiding your inner most thoughts, feelings and experiences with the other members, we give you the option of participating in the community board anonymously.

The profile that you create for the community board can differ from the one that you use for your Coaching Sanctuary account, so if you want to remain anonymous when you post to the community board, you can. If you want to reveal your identify, that is fine too.

You choose how you want the community to view you? Who will you be? Select a photo or image that represents who you want to be. Pick a screen name that suits you. It can be a nickname, or a character that calls to you, or the name of someone who inspired you. Have fun with it. The experience is yours to create.

Please do not post personally identifiable information about yourself, others or businesses. Do not upload photos unless you possess the copyright to those photos.

Make a post

The Community Board is a trusted and safe place to share your experience, post specific questions, or get words of encouragement. Add pictures and links to your posts and replies, and mark your favorite ones with a thumbs-up!

Filtering

Easily track your own posts and replies, follow posts of other members or check-out inspirational post from the self-guided coaching program, the Spiral Up Journey.

Sneak Previews

Access the Community Board from anywhere. You can see topic-specific posts in the Journey, on the Vision Board, in Goals or the Journal.

Make the most out of the Community Board

Not sure where to start?

What are you working on right now? If you are stuck in one of the workbooks of the Journey, you can browse through related postings by selecting that chapter from Inspirations from the Journey. See what other members have to share about their experience. If you want to ask a question or inspire other members on topics related to Energy, or health and well being, just select that topic from the list of categories and share your ideas and experience by posting to the community board.

Tap into the power of the community as often as you like. You may just come across a posting that resonates with you on some level and feel inclined to jump in – or get the answer you were looking for to advance to the next chapter of the Journey, or to complete that goal that you have been longing to finish for months.

You don't have to do it alone

The community board looks like a bulletin board with post-it notes that represent various topics that you will encounter as you advance in Coaching Sanctuary – such as the Flower of Life, the Five Creative Powers, and Inspirations. Think of the community board as your virtual support group - each category your gateway to new information, practical ideas and inspiration to feed your soul.

If you are hungry for answers to a particular question, just post it to the community board and see what comes back. If a particular member whose experience resonates with you on some level inspires you, follow them so you can stay abreast of their latest posts. You decide what information you want to see at any given time.

As your appetite changes, you can update the members or posts that you follow, or select from different categories to get new information. You can post as often as you like, reply to other posts if you have something to add, or just read through them all to find something or someone to connect with.

There is no right or wrong way to use the community board – as long as you honor the code of conduct by respecting other members, refraining from derogatory or inappropriate content and treating others with compassion and acceptance.

Taking your transformation beyond the computer

We are big fans of going “beyond the computer” and encourage you to create practices with friends that can be worked into other aspects of your life. Some examples might include buddy exercise sessions, sharing a meal with a friend, volunteering at a local women’s center, or just taking a pen and pad to a local coffee shop for some "thinking time."

You will find that the more skilled you become at the Coaching Sanctuary, and the further you progress toward achieving your intentional life, the more outwardly you’ll express your new self in your community, in your friendships, and in your world.

Inspirational Quote: “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
- Marcel Proust, French Novelist (1871-1922)

With friends like yours, you can achieve anything

At the Coaching Sanctuary we have made it possible for you to invite your friends to share in your Journey, support you in achieving your goals, participate in your daily Practices, and join you in giving back to others. The importance of sharing with and supporting your friends cannot be underestimated.

It's exceptionally hard to make life changes and our efforts are usually doomed to failure when we try to do it on our own," writes Alan Deutschman in his book Change or Die. One of Deutschman’s crucial strategies is "don't do it alone." Friends will help you reach your goals faster, stick to your Practices, and make you accountable to your commitments in a gentle way. The friends you invite to share in your experience will also become inspired to embark on their own Journey of personal transformation.

Unlike social networking sites, where you invite everyone you know to join your network, at the Coaching Sanctuary the quality of your relationships is far more important than the quantity.

Inspirational Quote: “A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Poet, Essayist (1850-1894)

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